Madore

surname · English · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Madore is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Isle of Man it is the 8th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: apparently from a shortened form of the personal name Amadour, from Latin Amator meaning ‘lover’.

rarermore common
  • CACanada1 in 42K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 97K
  • USUnited States1 in 125K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.7K ●

across 3 countries

Sources
221 ●

22K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 125K ◐

United States

Meaning & origin●

apparently from a shortened form of the personal name Amadour, from Latin Amator meaning ‘lover’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Madore is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2,65816K rec.1 in 125K2.7KMadore221
GB United Kingdom—2,3872.4K rec.——Madore16
CA Canada—1,7771.5K rec.——Madore91
AU Australia—475471 rec.——Madore10
DE Germany—198199 rec.——Madore12
IL Israel—184185 rec.——Madore1
IT Italy—9497 rec.——Madore3
IM Isle of Man#873264 rec.——Madore1
JM Jamaica—5151 rec.——Madore1
NZ New Zealand—4849 rec.——Madore3
FR France—470 rec.1 in 1.4M47—1
NL Netherlands—4542 rec.——Madore5

Roughly 2.7K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 125K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English20K68%
  • French3.8K13%
  • Swahili2.3K8%
  • Spanish7042%
  • Portuguese4732%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English20,16068%
French3,82113%
Swahili2,2978%
Spanish7042%
Portuguese4732%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Madore is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname4.2K records spelled Madore4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Madoré, Mādorē

  • Spanish surname1.3K records spelled Madore4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Brazil, United Kingdom

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Madoré

  • a separate surname564 records spelled Madore2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Madoré

  • Greek surname62 records spelled Madore2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Madoré

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Madore is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, moisture that covers the body prior to sweating

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, ablative singular of mador

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02550751001900192019401960198081 · 1961

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Madore in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
189114
190142
191165
192150
193159
194166
195163
196181
197154
198152
199147

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Joseph Alexandre Camille Madore, b. 1858Nelson Madore, b. 1940Barry F. Madore, b. 1948Shelley Madore, b. 1962David Madore, b. 1976Elliot Madore, b. 1987Frédérick Madore, b. 1988Anne-Marie Madore, b. 2000

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 10 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Madore
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.7K#11,789
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.5K#11,416
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#12,611
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196181—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194166—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191165—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195163—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193159—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197154—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192150—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199147—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 16 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Madore?
We estimate roughly 2.7 thousand people bear Madore (counting its spellings and scripts) across 3 countries in our records.
In which country does Madore have the most bearers?
We estimate about 2.7 thousand people bear Madore in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled madore.
How common is Madore compared with other names?
In Isle of Man, Madore is the 8th most common surname of 273 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Madore mean?
Recorded meaning: apparently from a shortened form of the personal name Amadour, from Latin Amator meaning ‘lover’.
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Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Madore” — the 8th most common surname in Isle of Man. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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